Long search finds grain of hope in the glume
Credit: John Innes Centre Researchers have found the elusive genetic element controlling the elongated grains and glumes of a wheat variety identified by the renowned...
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Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads
Credit: Adapted from ACS Omega 2021, DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c00806 The yeast Candida albicans can cause itchy, painful urinary tract and vaginal yeast infections. For women in...
Researchers use ‘hole-y’ math and machine learning to study cellular self-assembly
Credit: Wong lab/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The field of mathematical topology is often described in terms of donuts and pretzels. To most of us,...
Novel immunotherapy boosts long-term stroke recovery in mice
Credit: Xiaoming Hu/University of Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, May 19, 2021 - Specialized immune cells that accumulate in the brain in the days and weeks after a...
Mapping the quantum frontier, one layer at a time
Researchers design new experiments to map and test the mysterious quantum realmCredit: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer A heart surgeon doesn't need to grasp quantum mechanics...
Envisioning safer cities with AI
Researchers use crowdsourced data, neural networks, and supercomputers to simulate risks to cities and regionsCredit: Chaofeng Wang, SimCenter, UC Berkeley Artificial intelligence is providing new...
Carbohydrate ‘cage’ allows precise drug delivery to the gastrointestinal tract
A GlycoCage technology developed by GlycoNet researchers aims to improve current treatments for inflammatory bowel diseaseCredit: UBC, Michael Smith Laboratories More Canadians suffer from inflammatory...
NASA’s Webb to study how massive stars’ blasts of radiation influence their environments
Credit: Credits: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Massimo Robberto (STScI, ESA), Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team IMAGE PROCESSING: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) In a nearby stellar...
Vegan and omnivorous diets promote equivalent muscle mass gain, study shows
Trials performed by researchers at the University of São Paulo with healthy young adults show that the right level of protein intake is the key...
A tale of frozen landscapes is also an urgent call to action
Credit: Jon Ove Hagen The catastrophe Wadham is seeing unfold is the rapid melting and demise of our planet's glaciers. A demise that will cause...
Alzheimer protein APP regulates learning and social behavior in the healthy brain
Beyond plaques: Heidelberg scientists unravel the natural functions of the APP protein familyCredit: Susanne Klein, Prof. Müller's research group, Heidelberg University While the APP protein...
Magnetically propelled cilia power climbing soft robots and microfluidic pumps (video)
Credit: American Chemical Society The rhythmic motions of hair-like cilia move liquids around cells or propel the cells themselves. In nature, cilia flap independently, and...
New study shows flies mutant for schizophrenia-associated genes respond well to anti-psychotics
Credit: University of Bristol Scientists have successfully treated flies displaying behavioural problems linked to newly discovered schizophrenia-associated genes in humans, using common anti-psychotics. Schizophrenia is...
NPS students tackle key challenges of the Mobile CubeSat Network
Credit: (U.S. Navy graphic by the NPS Office of University Communications) Four Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, representing the Navy and Army, have each conducted...
CT scans offer new view of Lake Malawi cichlid specimens in Penn State museum
Modern technology aids effort to characterize fish species in huge southern Africa waterCredit: Jay Stauffer Jr., Penn State Computed tomography -- CT scanning -- which...
